FG Suspends State Allocations Deduction The Federal Government has granted the request of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to stop further deductions from states’ accounts to enable them to meet their London/Paris Club debt obligation. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the...

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state on Friday night signed the 2017 Appropriation Bill into law, promising that this year's budget would perform better than the previous year. Presenting the N204,288,000,000 billion estimates to the Governor at the Government House for assent, Speaker of the...

The Supreme Court will on December 9, 2016 deliver judgment in a legal action challenging the propriety of nomination of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal by the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the 2015 gubernatorial election in the state. The apex court will among others, determine...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; and other civil society organisations has faulted the country’s current budgeting process, stating that it did not support inclusiveness. They made their position known in...

As part of efforts to boost educational, cultural and business ties with the State of Kuwait, Sokoto state government says it is making concerted efforts to benefit from the Arab country’s $1billion development fund set aside for intervention in critical social sectors in Sub...

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has revealed that fraud discovered in the local governments' salary vouchers had put on hold the inauguration of the elected officials about two months after they were elected. The governor who made the revelation during a Media Chat held...